Category: Books
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FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on Madeline Sharples Blog
Today’s WOW! Blog Tour finds me over at Madeline Sharples’ blog CHOICES as a Guest Writer. Check it out and be sure to sign up for the give-aways!
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Meet Catherine Steinberg during Authors in The Shop at Guilford Art Center
Saturday, November 9Come celebrate the launch of Catherine Steinberg’s new book Eating Chocolate and Watching the Moon — Spiritual Awakening through Loss and Karmic Resolution. The journey of becoming a mother, expanding the identity of the self and the completion of family karma within a spiritual context are major themes that Catherine Steinberg, psychotherapist, shamanic…
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GUEST WRITER: The Artwork of Sleeping with Ghosts
by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts People often comment about the visual nature of my creative work, and how my writing is usually accompanied by photography or artwork. As a graphic designer, artist, and writer, I firmly believe that partnering visuals and words layers the intentions of my work and makes the communication more…
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GUEST WRITER: The Importance of Storytelling
by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts My mother, who is easily insulted, often remembers the time a therapist called her a storyteller. Mom recounts the comment as one might an injustice, and she twists and elongates the word “storyteller” to make it sound as painful as it felt for her. What’s the old saying?…
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GIVE-AWAY from A Wonderful World of Words
Today’s WOW! Blog Tour stops at A Wonderful World of Words and includes a chance to win* a free copy of Sleeping with Ghosts! *scroll all the way to the bottom of the blog post
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BOOK REVIEW by Kaecey McCormick
Today, the Sleeping with Ghosts WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour stop features a really thoughtful BOOK REVIEW by Kaecey McCormick: If you’re ready to take a thoughtful, heartfelt stroll through memory and meaning, Sleeping with Ghosts is absolutely worth your time. Jen’s gentle but honest voice will stay with you long after the last page…
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GUEST WRITER: Listening to Your Ghosts
by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him… — Plato Ghosts, Muses, Inspiration, Universe, God. Call it what you…
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BOOK REVIEW by Beverley Baird
Today, the Sleeping with Ghosts WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour stop features a BOOK REVIEW by Beverley A Baird: I would highly recommend Payne’s poetry memoir. Love fills its pages, and the words conjure intriguing images. There are so many special poems that I’m sure you will fall in love with, just as I…
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GUEST WRITER: About the Ghosts in Sleeping with Ghosts
by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fadesFor ever and forever when I move.How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were…
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GUEST WRITER: The Importance of Retreat
If the world were a sound, it would be flipping through all of the channels on a radio really fast. Announcers and DJs, commercials and music genres overlapping in the same way our 21st-century tasks seem to layer upon themselves. We’re always busy, there’s always something else to be managed, and the To Do list…
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BOOK REVIEW at Shoe’s Seeds & Stories
Today, the Sleeping with Ghosts WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour stop features a BOOK REVIEW by Shoe’s Seeds & Stories: These are poems to savor, even when they are heartbreaking, whether Payne is writing about New Hampshire in 1992 (I can picture the hidden meadow of lupines, the strawberry moon, the breathtaking stars), a…
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INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Charity Howard
Today, I talk with more Charity Howard at Chit Chat with Charity. You might remember her from the “Power of Writing Through Poetry, Memories” review she did of Sleeping with Ghosts last week. Today, we chat interview-style. Check it out! JEN: Hi Charity. Thank you for being part of the WOW! Women on Writing blog tour…
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